Chalk one post off the list.
Among the many posts I had planned was one encouraging the Alaska Governor not to challenge her fellow Republican Lisa Murkowski for the latter’s Senate seat (as some on the right have hoped and some in the media have speculated). Not only would it divide the party, but it would make it increasingly difficult for that accomplished executive to maintain her outsider status in GOP circles.
Part of Sarah Palin’s appeal is that she is not part of the Washington establishment.
This good woman will increase her standing as a future contender for national office by completing two successful terms as Chief Executive of the Last Frontier. And if her next five-and-one-half years in office are like her first two-and-one-half, she’ll easily achieve this goal.
There’s no need any need for me to make that case in a blog post because Palin has made clear she’s backing Murkowski’s reelection campaign, planning to hold a fundraiser for the state’s senior senator after the state’s legislative session ends later this month. On Tuesday, Palin spokeswoman Meg Stapleton said said that the Governor “thinks the senator is doing a great job and that’s why she’s looking forward to hosting a fundraiser for her.”
I agree patriot, I want her to stay just where she is and keep that outsider appeal that she has. People here in San Diego love here! I was amazed by the grass-roots support. Great blog here too….keep it up
As Michael Corleone would say about Palin’s decision, “It’s the smart thing. Palin was always smarter.”
I suspect Palin knows that four years of Obamanism will have voters in a murderous mood in 2012, especially vis a vis Congress. Palin will do well to stay out of the line of fire, do a good job for Alaskans, and ensure she’s the most popular governor in the country when she runs for Prez.
By 2012, an experienced and still very youthful Palin will represent the actual “hope and change” voters thought they would get from Lord Zero–but didn’t.
Lord Zero – that’s good.
Dare I hope? Yes, I DO! Great post! Thanks!
I mainly agree with Left Coast, but I think the outsider/populist image is a double-edged sword. Palin needs to stay on the political front burner by making tea party appearances, doing interviews, making speeches for various causes (Special Olympics, for example), etc. What saddens me re. Palin is that the way she was treated confirmed the triumph of the political professional. There are too many people satisfied with serfdom.
Sarah Palin is not a politician. She is a concerned citizen. She entered politics because things weren’t quite right in her town. She fixed them. She brought down the State Republican Party Chairman and the sitting governor because they got cozy with the oil companies to the detriment of her fellow citizens.
Yes, she is a conservative Christian. She has no desire to advance that as an agenda – different strokes for different folks. I don’t believe that she ever even thought about The Senate. She’s a doer not a talker.
She’ll be more than happy to finish her terms as Governor, satisfied that she has done her best for the people, and go back to hunting and fishing and, most of all, family.
That’s why we love her.
Meanwhile, the leftists see Palin as a reincarnation of the Andrew Jackson White House replete with drooling retarded children, yahoos wiping their bottoms on the drapes, moose being shot in East Room, and Wasilla hillbillies dancing on the tables.
There is nothing more to say of Sarah Palin if you are a leftist than “how dare she come out in public?” It is a terrible thing to be politically incorrected by the diversity loving, tolerant and forgiving left.
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I now turn this over to thelittleletterpeople for an important announcement.
By the time 2012 rolls around Obama’s stimulus package will have made a difference to the better in our Bush economy. I have no idea why Conservatives flock to her when she:
Left her town of Wasilla 22 million dollars in debt when she left.
She gave away a great deal of the state’s surplus in rebate checks to the point that Alaska is now in dire need of funds from the Stim.
Made a complete fool of herself when she had no prepared speeches to make and had to answer relatively easy questions from the press.
Is so wrapped up in ethics problems that she is forced to start her own leagal fund to deal with the bills.
Recently came out for a missle defense system that is totally useless and doesn’t work in today’s world.
She is only popular with her Conservative base, a base that is ever-shrinking with no ideas on how to deal with modern economic problems and modern global problems.
Enjoy your ‘Tea Parties’ guys.
Um, NJ Liberal, I’d check your facts, esp. about Alaska and “stimulus” funds.
And given how dependent your guy is without a teleprompter, even when he’s not speaking Austrian, I wouldn’t be so quick to fault any candidate for having trouble without prepared speeches or front of the press.
As to the alleged ethics problems, well, well, well, you lefties have a strategy, make accusations and call those accusations facts. She hasn’t set up a legal defense fund, but may have to because her political adversaries have been filing nuisance ethics complaints, rooted in their animus and not her wrongdoing.
Of course, GPW you can only use personal attacks like ‘teleprompter’. What a lot of crap. All presidents use teleprompters. And Obama has proven that he doesn’t need teleprompters in such settings as UNSCREENED town hall meetings. I’ll take a president who can speek intelligently and coherently any day over a cocky cowboy who mangles the English language constantly who had no clear vision for the country except enriching his rich friends, wrecking the economy and starting endless wars.
And if you keep up with things, Palin’s PAC spokesperson said the other day that the legal defense fund being set up by Conservatives is NOT the fund she (Palin) can use. Again according to ther spokesperson the official Legal Defense fund will be set up by SarahPAC so the contributions can be screened to ensure that the legal requirements for contributers can be met.
[We are angry, aren’t we, NJ Liberal. I was trying to inject a little humor into this and I’m met with an angry rant. How is it a personal attack to reference the teleprompter? Obama has used the teleprompter more often than any of his predecessors.
Not just that, if the media would play some of his gaffes as often as they played those of W, he’d have a similar reputation for odd statements. Did you even get the Austrian reference?
Last I checked Palin had not set up a Legal Defense Fund, but you don’t even get to the strategy of your ideological allies to file nuisance complaints against the Alaska Governor. You really do hate her, don’t you? You really do hate. –Dan]
“UNSCREENED town hall meetings”
I don’t think Obama has ever done an ‘unscreened’ town hall meeting. They are invariably populated with contributors to his campaign.
I’m glad she’s not running and I hope she doesn’t change her mind and go to Washington. Congress always has the lowest approval ratings and it’s not a good way of getting national exposure, no matter how many people say that being Senator would be a step up from Governor. It’s just not.
And in the mean time, she’s obviously viewed as a significant threat. She’s elevated by the noisy sorts, the Ashley Judds and Lily Tomlins. Everytime she’s in the news because of a frivolous complaint (she wore her husband’s team jacket with company logos on it, the horror!) and every time she’s featured in a political spoof or raunchy music video… she becomes more immunized to criticism. Rational people can only conclude that if there is a criticism of her, that it is baseless. It will be harder to criticize her for anything and have it stick.
Every time a “feminist” calls her a bad mother because she works, or a “defender of the lower-classes” tears on about Wasilla hillbillies, or a “liberal” makes fun of her accent, or our Ivy League betters make fun of her education… she wins.
She seems bright and effective. She needs seasoning. It is fun, how she makes certain people’s heads explode. She might not want any national office. She could turn out to be great. We’ll just have to wait and see.
We democrats pray that Palin is on the GOP ticket again. It’ll just cement ANOTHER landslide victory for the good guys.
I find it sort of funny to frame as “the good guys” the people who found so much joy in vile accusation and vile behavior toward Governor Palin.
Perhaps “the good guys” should act like “the good guys” from time to time.
Hey Gang. GP I must tell you I love your blog and love this piece of news. I am quite fond of Sarah Palin, because I feel that her belief in small govt conservatism is what will cleanse the republican party of all these big Govt types who are quite close to the big spenders in the jackass party. Let her stay in Alaska working on energy issues and being a Mom for four years. Many folks will be pulling their hair out at the end of the Obama term. He is a likable and charismatic guy, and obviously well read, but come on. How in the hell can you respect who wants to get rid of nuclear weapons when a loon like Kim has his own nefarious plans. I say to my GP reader friends, wait for four years when the country is close to collapse and a bar of soap costs $500000000000000000.00 and we are no longer allowed to own guns and Iran and N Korea are ready to launch. A small govt conservative will come back into the picture, and the smug won’t be smirking then.